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damnhooligan
02-25-2006, 04:51 PM
One of the greatest nerd icons of the 20th century has passed away! But more importantly, I beat Raph's Girl to the punch! Long live the new grim reaper!

LOS ANGELES - Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs "The Andy Griffith Show," and another Knotts hit, "Three's Company."

Unspecified health problems had forced him to cancel an appearance in his native Morgantown in August 2005.

Click here (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/gossip/13962346.htm) for the rest of the article.

EDIT: Also, yes. I am a dick for using someone's death to usurp the throne.

Raph's Girl
02-25-2006, 05:03 PM
Geesh! Were you like looking specifically for the obits or something?? His passing was just announced a couple minutes ago! :o

Seriously tho...*sighs* They're dropping like flies!!

Bye Bye Barney! :(

iris
02-25-2006, 05:04 PM
*pout*

bye bye uncle deeky

Jo Dawn
02-25-2006, 05:20 PM
:( :(

Aww, I loved him. He was great.


"Gotta nip it in the bud, Andy."


Rest in piece, Don. You deserve it, buddy.

GK Punk
02-25-2006, 05:22 PM
He seemed like one of the performers that would be around forever, ya know?
Rest well Don.

Jester
02-25-2006, 05:27 PM
Man...first Pat "Mr. Myagi" Morita, and now Don Knotts...:( He was an idol of mine...a lovable goof, and successful to boot.
God just got another clumsy guardian angel today...;)

Mars-Chan
02-25-2006, 09:01 PM
I'm sad that he is dead, but Jester has summed it up best:

God just got another clumsy guardian angel today... ;)

:lol: :tlol:

ThirdMarioBro
02-25-2006, 11:14 PM
*sigh*, we're loosing the old generation person by person. :(

It's sad. It really is. Next up are the icons of the late 60's, then more to go after that, and so on and so on.

Life is depressing. :(

VaughnMichael
03-03-2006, 06:56 AM
*sigh*, we're loosing the old generation person by person. :(

It's sad. It really is. Next up are the icons of the late 60's, then more to go after that, and so on and so on.

Life is depressing. :(
it sure is it's sad when you lose a family member and it's some times just as sad when you lose a star you admire or grew up with.
Till this day I can't look at Jim Henson when I see him on something because I idolized the man so much it just make me break out in tears to think of how his life was so foolisly taken from him because he had not been so carefull with himself....I'm actully quite sad about Don Knotts as well he was a really funny man in that classic sort of way...may his soul rest in peace always.
-Putrescent